Thursday, 25 April 2013

Students Protest Against Galliano.

John Galliano’s teaching post at Parsons School of Design is being protested by students.
It was announced recently that the designer will lead a course called Show Me Emotion at the New York City institution.
Galliano was fired from Christian Dior for making anti-Semitic slurs two years ago.
The New School’s Jewish Student Union has now put out a petition protesting against the appointment which can be found on change.org.
'We do not want money from our tuition going to this kind of person. We feel like we’ve been slapped in the face by our school. There should be no room for this kind of person as a staff member on the faculty at Parsons,' the petition statement reads.
'Imagine if the school were hiring a person who publicly voiced support for the KKK - there would likely be backlash because it’s not right to have someone like that teaching at a school. But because this is someone who has made anti-Semitic remarks, people are willing to look the other way. This is unacceptable.'
The petition argues it's 'disgraceful' of the design school to hire the highly-controversial designer.
Despite the short nature of the three-day design workshop proposed, the students are none-the-less outraged at the idea.
'It doesn’t matter if it's for three months or three days,' the statement added, 'hiring someone who has made such horrific comments shows that the school values Galliano over their entire Jewish student body.'
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